Robert Glasper: "I love straight-ahead, and I love RnB; and I'm gonna do soul; and hip hop. That's what jazz is supposed to be: a reflection of the society of the time."
Glasper brought his Experiment to the UK this month and Jazz on 3 were there at the sell-out Barbican concert to record a band that brings together jazz and improvisation with today's urban music genres.
Here's a sneak preview of a gig you can hear in full on Monday 4th June at 11pm on BBC Radio 3:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tt0y
Hear Gilles Peterson's interview with Robert Glasper and more tracks from the Barbican gig on BBC Radio 6 Music:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fm4ss
Read a BBC review of the band's new album, Black Radio:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/qjvh
Robert Glasper - piano, keyboards
Casey Benjamin - saxophone, vocoder
Derrick Hodge - bass
Mark Colenburg - drums
Recorded at Barbican, London on 14th May 2012.